"And you know the alternative?"
"Death!"
"And you are prepared to die—so young, so beautiful, to die a traitress?"
"God will forgive me."
"Colonel Don Juan de Alava, on your honour, as a soldier and a gentleman, do you know where this American woman now is?"
"I do know."
"Where is she?"
"Do you think me less firm than a woman?"
"Have you sworn secrecy?"
"I have not sworn."